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A02955	The French kinges declaration vpon the riot, felonie, and rebellion of the duke of Mayenne & the duke and knight of Aumalle, and all their assistants. Whereunto is adioyned another declaration of the same king, against the tovvnes of Paris, Orleance, Amyens, and Abbeuille and their adherentes. Faithfully translated out of the French.	France. Sovereign (1574-1589 : Henry III)	1589 (1589)	STC 13098.5; ESTC S112602	10,597	24

THE FRENCH KINGES DECLARATION VPON THE RIOT FELONIE AND REBELLION OF THE DVKE OF MAYENNE the Duke and Knight of Aumalle and all their assistantes Wherunto is adioyned Another Declaration of the same King against the tovvnes of Paris Orleance Amyens and Abbeuille and their adherentes Faithfully translated out of the French ❧ Printed at London for Thomas Cadman 1589. ❧ THE KINGES DECLARATION vpon the Ryot Felonie Rebellion of the Duke of Mayenne the Duke and Knight of Aumalle and their assistants HENRY by the grace of God king of Fraunce and Poland to all men present and to come greeting Whereas there is no commaundement of God Religion or humaine law that can excuse the subiect for taking armes without the decree or permission of his soueraigne to whom it hath pleased his Deuine goodnesse to giue all authoritie ouer him to whom onely he hath reserued the sword of power to vse for the preseruation of the good and the punishment and correction of the bad what may be thought of that subiect that taketh armes against his owne most Christian lawfull and naturall king For in case this crime be abhominable in the sight both of God and man and ought to redound to the shame and confusion of such as commit the same then is there among all Christians no name odious enough for the Frenchmen if through disloyaltie riots and fellonie they continue not the children of their fathers those auncient Frenchmen who so vertuously with the perill of their owne liues haue obteyned and bene noted among all nations in the world to be the faithfullest and most loyall to their kinges Againe if to this so horrible a crime there may be added any encrease in respect of such bondes benefites and particular gratifications receaued by the subiect that armeth himselfe against his benefactor and lawfull and naturall king then are the Duke of Mayenne and the Duke and Knight of Aumalle worthy that name which as yet is not in vse And as their rebellion exceedeth all measure and example so ought they likewise to be termed the most vnfaithfull and disloyall in this world also to leaue to their posteritie this note of their ingratitude and rebellion as a beautifying of the loyaltie of such as remayne stedfast in their fidelitie and iust and lawfull obedience which God commaundeth them to beare and yeld to their king All this notwithstanding so farre did our clemencie and good will extend that endeuoring to forget all former matters and iust occasions that they had ministred vnto vs to entreate and chastise them according to the desertes of their disloyaltie euen of our selues seeking their safetie with the care of their woundes through our owne yea and the preseruation of their liues and honor with the expense of our owne authoritie We haue of late dayes sent vnto them sundry and many tymes diuers of our good faithful seruants subiects vvith our expresse letters as also since our Herehaughts of armes to giue the to weet of our good holy entent withall that we were stil ready not only to forget all matters past but also to receaue thē into our gracious fauor cherish embrace thē as our good loyall subiects so lōg as they should performe their duties such their submissiōs as iustly they owe vnto vs. Neuertheles euē as an ambitious treacherous soule is vtterly vncompatible of his Gods assistance through infidelitie is no longer capable of such reason as might cōteine or reduce him to his duety As also the Spyder which is norished with the same licour where out the Bee gathereth both hony and waxe doth neuerthelesse conuert the same into poison so our goodnes clemency infused into the harts of such persons abandoned both of God and his holy spirit are conuerted into corruption but not into that substāce which they ought therof to take for in liew of humbling themselues as they ought not cōfessing their faults they are growen more proud haue plunged themselues in the destruction of both soules liues honors and credits together with whatsoeuer their domesticall goods by seasing vpon our townes and castels and through their trachery and rebellion enterprising against our authoritie our Magistrates our good and loyall subiects and seruantes yea euen against our Prelates Bishops and other Cleargie men whō they haue imprisoned robbed ransomed by torment enforced to resigne their benefices to their partakers without respect of desert or so much as quality as being contented that they were partakers in their wickednes with al other vnreasonable means of hostility rebellion and fellony al this vnder pretence and colour of religion godlines as if themselues could so much as once approch to ours or to that of so many good honorable persons whom they persecute as guilty only because they be their kings faithful seruantes and subiects wil not damne thēselues or haue any portiō in their detestable rebellion stil hauing in their mouthes that vvhich is farthest from their harts making a vaile and cloake of Gods honor thereby to resist his expresse vvord and by their ambition fellony and treacherie to subuert the Catholicke Apostolicke and Romish religion as heretofore they haue sundrie times done by seasing vpō our tovvnes munitions therby to diuert hinder vs vvhen vve vver best disposed and most resolute in our owne person to warre vpon the heretickes as also they would be very sory there should be no more in France least thereby their ambitious purposes should haue no farther colour And albeit through Gods grace we be not bound to geue accompt of our actions to any but himselfe yet to the ende the simplicitie of some of our subiectes be not through their false suggestions abused and that they should wrongfully imagine the late Duke of Guise to haue bene punished for being the protector and defender of the Catholicke Apostolicke and Romish Religion or for his good affection to the commons and that in respect thereof the said Duke of Mayenne Duke and Knight of Aumalle and their associates may haue had great and lawfull occasion to vnite themselues as well for their own particular preseruation together with the maintenaunce of Religion as for the reuenge of him that dyed for them as they doe report whereby to stirre vp and seduce our subiects and to cloake their ambitious rebellion Our pleasure is thereby fullie to giue them to vnderstand that wickedly they haue sought to couer their disloyaltie with the honour of God the increase of Religion and affection to the common wealth for not to stay vpon the particularities of the said Duke of Guise and his brothers liues the memory whereof is but to fresh yet in this Realme especially among such as were best acquainted with them not to wast so much time about the writing thereof it shall suffise vs onely to say that a few daies before the Duke of Guises death the said Duke of Mayenne sent vs word

by an honorable Knight Syr Alphonso Corse whom he sent to vs that it was not enough for his brother to weare beades about his necke but that also it was requisite he should haue a soule or conscience that we should looke well to our selues that it were good himselfe the sayd Duke of Mayenne or the said Knight should come to aduertise vs and that the terme was so short as it was to be feared he could not arriue time enough As also we haue not lost the remembrances and letters conteyning his practises and procuring of amitie with the king of Nauarre aud the heretickes as well within the Realme as without vpon what soeuer conditions in case they would promise him their amitie and assistance for his establishment It is likewise sufficiently knowen what pensions he receaued from straungers vpon what promises and to what end his confederates with such as he did most condemne before men as fauorers of heresie are not vnknowen to any but those that list not to know the same These be those notable actes that he hath taken out of the liues of the Apostles and Gods commaundementes for the preseruation of the Catholicke Apostolicke and Romish Religion and the relief of the people whereas contrariwise it is well knowen where abouts our armies were employed that our intent was this spring personally to haue gone forward and that there was no let in vs why the said Duke of Mayne should not warre vpon the heretickes as well as our deare and faithfull Cosin the Duke of Neuers who had yet continued our enterprise had not our forces bene diuerted by the said Duke of Mayenne and the Duke and Knight of Aumalle as already the said Duke of Aumalle did the like the last yeare by surprising our Townes in Picardie and it may be said by the workes of their handes that the Huguenots had neuer found so great fauour neither this poore Realme such misery and oppression but in the soule and life of the late Duke of Guise the Duke of Mayenne and the Duke and Knight of Aumalle As for the relief of the people let the present estate of this Realme be considered the losses destructions that it hath encurred since the yeare 1585 when the said late Duke of Guise with the aforesaid of Mayenne and Aumalle tooke armes against vs our authoritie let the iminent destruction of this realme be deemed by such occurrēces as haue happened since that time so compared with the former yeares of 83. 84. as also the order that we had begon to take establishe in this our sayd Realm to the honor of God the ease of our people and agree their relief and the charges of the warre with the actions of the said late Duke of Guise and the aforenamed who since that time neuer laid aside their weapons sometimes vnder one pretence sometimes vnder an other note also the countenaunce of the sayd late Duke of Guise and his assistantes when we contrary to his expectation graunted vnto the deputies of our Estats the discharge and reductions of tallages to the state they were in An. 1576. alwayes prouided that they would minister meanes to supply the stocke and satisfie the enterteinement of the Royall dignitie and the estate and to prosecute the warre which they all had so solemnely desired and sworne wherein them selues should by our decree haue the administration of the coyne as they had promised vs for at that tyme on the one side he disswaded vs from doing it willing vs not to abase our authority so far but to make our selues to be beleued and on the other side he vrged his partakers to proceede in such their instant suites yet not vpon any earnest desire thereto but rather to bring vs either into necessitie or into hatred with our said subiectes with firm resolution vpon our refusall to breake vp the Estates vpon so plausible a grounde to the people and him selfe to reape the honour and thankes for that whiche he least meant reiecting vpon vs the enuie for that which we extremely desired and whiche we did vpon our great affection to the relief of our subiectes so farre as in vs might lye and that the preseruation of our Estate woulde permitte euen contrary to his aduise and counsell and all such perswasions as he vsed either by him selfe or his to the contrary Also in respect of his behauiours toward vs after we had remitted and pardoned al his former transgressions his rash arrogancie was growen to be such that the opinions in our Counsell were no longer free he made him selfe to be beleeued The execution also of sentences and iudgementes giuen in our soueraigne Courtes agaynst the most lewde and guiltie in this lande was deferred in that they could not be caught and yet were they safe in his trayne and chamber yea and he procured them to be lodged in our Court so as they were the honestest men most zealous Catholickes of this Realme if once they were his partakers And contrarywise the honestest and best Catholicque was an hereticque or at the least a Politicque in case hee would not sweare and take parte in their treason Hee likewise did all that hee might that euerye man might know and it was one of his pollicyes that he could doe what hee would and that we had euen cast our selues into his armes so farre foorth as to cause such rumours to bee spread throughout our Prouinces and to face the Deputies of our Generall Estates whiche woulde not depende vppon him and alter their bookes at his pleasure albeit there were but ouer manye such chosen and nominated through his violence Witnesse that dayly at set houres there was in his chamber a Counsell holden of matters propounded also what should be concluded in the Estates by purchase driftes or violence according as the sayd Duke of Guise and his partakers had resolued euen in the face of the world yea and he boasted of it and that there was no greater safetie then in his protection likewise that it was a poinct of treason to be our faithfull seruant giuing out as a badge of iniurie this terme HE IS ROYALL and for a badge of honor HE IS A GVISART He sought vniustly to command ouer him whom God had constituted in all authoritie soueraign power ouer him endeuored by the meer benefites honors and authoritie which his king had bestowed vpon him to take from him both crowne life at the least so soone as he had founde meanes somewhat better to establish his authoritie then as yet it was if peraduenture he could haue graunted vs so long life for it is most certaine and sufficiently verified that he had already taken such order for his drifts that he accompted him selfe Maister of our Castle and person yea he had vnlawfully seased vpon the keyes euen of our Chambers The cōuenient weapons for the execution of his practise and vnfit for any other warrelick exploict